[Osmf-talk] SOTM Africa

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Hi Steve,

Could you, please, share some practical information about visiting 
Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire? Perhaps, at your blog?

How did you fly there? How did you get to the hotel in Grand-Bassam? Did 
you rent a car? Did it have a manual or an automatic transmission? Or 
have you taken a taxi? Was the hotel expensive?

I've been only in one country in Africa, in Mauritius. It is the most 
prosperous African country, and it is on a large island. I've never been 
at the continental Africa.

Do you have an advice for people who plan a visit to Africa? Perhaps you 
could share some impressions about the conference and about Cote 
d’Ivoire in general? It would be very interesting to read such an 
article, probably, with some photos or even videos about this conference.

I hope that I assume it correctly that you attended it physically, not 
via a TeleLink.

With best regards,
Oleksiy

On 23-Nov-19 22:15, Steve Coast wrote:
>
> Today I attended SOTM Africa in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.
>
> It was a genuinely wonderful experience both for me personally and for 
> OSM. It was organized by both locals and many francophones. People 
> attended from a diverse set of African countries and beyond, and 
> they’re doing an enormous amount of work to make the map in Africa 
> better. The conference had multiple tracks and many great talks and 
> people. I want to thank them for what I saw.
>
> One of the tangential things that grabbed me was 
> http://africabees.com/ <http://africabees.com/> - using drones to map 
> places in a distributed way. Not to distract from 
> https://www.opendronemap.org/ which was also represented and awesome.
>
> Every SOTM should have at least one board member present. I’ve already 
> sent my board 2019 questions in, but, I think sending board members to 
> all the SOTM conferences is an obvious thing and I’d push for if 
> elected. It’s something that should be required. I’m very happy to be 
> wrong but I didn’t meet or see any OSMF board members who attended. 
> It’s confusing, what is more important than attending SOTMs for the 
> board? We can do better.
>
> In any case, please consider attending remote SOTMs, even if it’s a 
> long journey. The positivity and energy was wonderful to experience 
> and it comes on top of a wonderfully different culture.
>
> Best
>
> Steve
>
>
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